Faculty Recognition February 2015

Student Recognition February 2015

Undergraduate student Elizabeth Knapp (double major in Letters and Classics) has been accepted to the Logos in Oxford program with full funding and a stipend. Logos is organized by the Scholarship & Christianity in Oxford and supported by the Green Scholars Initiative.

OU Researcher Improves Cancer Detection with Image Analysis

Student Awards January 2015

Petar Bukovcic (Ph.D student, Advanced Radar Research Center) wrote, “Convective-Stratiform Separation using Video Disdrometer Observations in Central Oklahoma - The Bayesian Approach” and has been accepted for publication in the Atmospheric Research Journal.

Faculty Recognition January 2015

Mary Jo Watson (Director Emeritus & Regents’ Professor Art History) was inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame in October 2014. The Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame was established in 1994 to recognize and honor individuals, living and deceased, for outstanding meritorious service to higher education in Oklahoma.

Secretary Jewell Announces New Wildlife and Climate Studies at the South Central Climate Science Center

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that Interior’s South Central Climate Science Center is awarding nearly $550,000 to universities and other partners for research to guide managers of parks, refuges and other cultural and natural resources in planning how to help species and ecosystems adapt to climate change.